tuskus -
Mar 25, 2010 at 07:26 AM - Latest reply: closeup228935
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- Mar 25, 2010 at 08:29 AM
I have been using an old version of Word (maybe 2002?) on my laptop (Windows Vista) since I bought it about a year ago. I had installed it legitimately with CD and it worked fine until today. Now out of the blue, when I open one of my word documents it opens up in the new Word and asks for a 25 character product key. This has not happened before and I dont know how to resolve this problem.
It may just be due to a compatibility issue between your version and more recent versions, especially if you try to open documents written with newer version.
I don't know if this will work for you, but Microsoft published an update to resolve certain compatibility issues: "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats"
Office 200 trial is still on it thus you will have to uninstall it since you are using office 2003,open control panel>add/remove programs and uninstall.
